THE BACK

By Bingjian LIU

SUB-TI LTD - as FEST

Thriller - Completed 2010

His body has a memory...

    • Year of production
    • 2010
    • Genres
    • Thriller, Drama
    • Countries
    • HONG KONG (CHINA), FRANCE
    • Languages
    • MANDARIN
    • Budget
    • N/A
    • Duration
    • 85 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Bingjian LIU
    • Writer(s)
    • Bingjian LIU, Ye DENG
    • Producer(s)
    • Isabelle GLACHANT (Chinese Shadows), Julie GAYET (Rouge International), Nadia TURINCEV (Rouge International), Louise PRINCE, Jacky Yau CHI CHAK, Man Hong TONG
    • Synopsis
    • A thriller dealing with history, art, flesh and blood.
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      a film by LIU Bingjian
      Beijing. Middle of the 90’s.
      Hong Tao, thirty years old, has moved from the countryside to Beijing where he works in a fancy restaurant. He lives since the Cultural Revolution with a strange secret. Back then, his father was a famous Mao’s portrait painter and, obsessed with the leader’s representation, started tattooing Mao on human skins.
      Hong Tao, oppressed by this heavy inheritance, wants to hide it. But a new wave of unscrupulous antique collectors is ready to do anything to get their hands on them…
    • Partners & financing
    • Fonds Sud
    • Beginning of shooting
    • Sep 01, 2009